Denial of service in OpenLDAP

1) Reachable Assertion

EUVDB-ID: #VU50779

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-27212

CWE-ID: CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a reachable assertion when processing LDAP packets within the issuerAndThisUpdateCheck() function in  schema_init.c. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted packet with a short timestamp to the slapd and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

OpenLDAP: 2.4 - 2.4.57

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:a:openldap_org:openldap:2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:openldap_org:openldap:2.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:openldap_org:openldap:2.4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9454
https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/commit/3539fc33212b528c56b716584f2c2994af7c30b0
https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/commit/9badb73425a67768c09bcaed1a9c26c684af6c30

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.